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Pupils at the Cobblers' study centre choosing their RIF books
Pupils with their RIF book bags
Pupils with their chosen books
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Northampton Town started its
RIF project in September 2004.
The Project is based at the Playing
for Success Centre at the club.
The club has started a new programme springboarded
by their RTG project - Cobblers Reading Stars (no relation
to Premier League Reading Stars!) which sees boxes of
football reads going into local schools. Read
more about Cobblers Reading Stars. This programme
has now been developed for a pilot RTG programme called
Playing With Words
(PWW) . Both the Cobblers and Preston
North End ran this during the Spring term of 2006.
RTG would like to thank the following schools for taking
part in the pilot of PWW: Blackthorn Primary School,
Standens Barn Primary School, Weston Favell Junior High
School.
Northamptonshire has four Playing
for Success centres and a common web site. This
can be viewed by clicking on www.studycentres.northants.sch.uk.
They were recently visited by the Chief Inspector for
schools David Bell.
Here is a report from their first Reading The Game
event, from Study Centre Manager Antony Witheyman.
Reading The Game kicked off this week [October 11th 2004] in style
at Northampton Town Football club with the visit of club Captain
Ashley Westwood, Vice Captain Chris Wilmot, Director of Football
John Deehan, Chairman David Cardoza and Club Director Tony Clarke
MP (Northampton South).
Children from Hopping Hill Primary school in Northampton were chosen
by the Cobblers Study Centre to take part in the project. The children
were asked to choose from over 100 books by traditional and contemporary
authors, from Roald Dahl to Michael Morpurgo, as well as non-fiction
books and comic books. The children and the players poured over
the selection, and the club programme editor and local newspaper
were on hand to record the event for their publications. The children
have all been asked to write a book review of their chosen book
that will appear on the Cobblers Study Centre Website www.studycentres.northants.sch.uk.
The children were thrilled to also recieve their book
bags, book marks and book plates from Reading The Game.
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